A good day chasing this passenger special with the Galveston Museum F7 units.

On a dreary December 23, 1994, a Santa Fe intermodal train climbs Edelstein Hill between Chillicothe and Edelstein, Illinois, led by a bright warbonnet-clad EMD GP60M No. 101, followed by an older... (more)

Imagine the stories they could tell. Dozens of locomotives keep each other company at NRE's Silvis Facility. Leading the way is probably the most important of the pack. The veteran GP7u started li... (more)

Long live the Warbonnet. With SD75M 205 in the lead. Four Superfleet's cruse eastward on the Santa Fe transcon. What a railroad it was.

An eastbound Santa Fe train flies through Illinois farmland as it goes through Ancona, just as the power is illuminated during a brief spotlight of sunshine under a sky scattered with late day clo... (more)

A Pair of Classics

It was unusual for foreign power to visit Conrail’s yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania, but it was almost unheard of to see a caboose from a distant railroad to v... (more)

Santa Fe’s 198 train, running from Chicago to Los Angeles, curves through Ransom, Illinois, in the very last sunlight of April 16, 1994.

One of Santa Fe’s FP45 locomotives, recently painted in the attractive "Superfleet" paint scheme, is the power for a business train sitting in San Bernardino before departure as execut... (more)

A pair of Santa Fe GE locomotives power a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack track crosses the Vermillion River at South Streator, Illinois, on the afternoon of April 26, 1997.

Five Super Fleet GE B40-8Ws power Santa Fe’s QNYLA train as it crosses over the Spoon River at Dahinda, Illinois, on February 17, 1991.

When a train led by a GP30 went through Walong, we had high hopes of getting a train passing under itse... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe manifest, powered by a half-dozen GP30’s and GP35’s, passes over the track that it will soon occupy after it navigates the Tehachapi Loop.

With five SD’s in charge, a forty car eastbound Santa Fe TOFC train negotiates the Tehachapi Loop at Walong.

A trio of brand-new Santa Fe EMD GP60s, powering a stack train, fly up Edelstein Hill between Chillicothe and Edelstein, Illinois, on their first run west after completion by Electro-Motive Divisi... (more)

The EMD FP45 passenger service locomotive # 95 (built as # 105 in 1967) of the "Santa Fe" with 3600 hp looks a bit rusty and worn out now, but is still a very impressive and good looking... (more)